Quotes About Empathy

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.

Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity.

I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Love: Two minds without a single thought.

One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.